by Loren Seibold | I just read that the death toll of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria is estimated to have passed 46,000. It may be more. 46,000 people perished in a matter of minutes. Or maybe they wished it were minutes: for some, it was days of suffering, dying of thirst or slow […]
24 November 2022 | La Sierra University Signs Educational Partnership with Naval Center La Sierra University signed an Educational Partnership Agreement with the Naval Surface Warfare Center of Corona on Monday, November 14, 2022, at an official signing ceremony on campus. In a video of the event, La Sierra President Joy Fehr spoke about the […]
From ANN, April 21, 2016: The South American country of Ecuador has declared a state of emergency after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck at 6:58 p.m. Saturday, killing at least 413 people and injuring more than 2,500. The earthquake caused widespread destruction in the country, including four local Adventist churches. Pedernales, a city of about […]
From News Release, May 14, 2015: The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, was helping Nepalese communities recover from April’s 7.8 earthquake when the country was hit by a 7.3 earthquake on May 12. ADRA president Jonathan Duffy said in an email that the “new disaster […]
From ANN and APD, April 28, 2015: Seventh-day Adventist doctors and aid workers sprang to work in Nepal after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed more than 4,400 people on April 25. Tremors and victims have been reported in India, Bangladesh, and Tibet. The Nepalese government has declared a state of emergency, and countries around the […]
